![]() | Paddymelon Fruit, compared with Prickly (left) | Paddymelon Open Fruit Showing Seed | ![]() | |||
Animals Plants Info |
Class: | Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida) | |||||||||||||||
Order: | Vines (Cucurbitales) | |||||||||||||||
Family: | Gourd (Cucurbitaceae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||||
Species: | Paddymelon (Citrullus colocynthis)This Photo: | Fruit, compared with large glove | Other names: | Bitter Apple or Paddy Melon | General Species Information: Found in the Murray Mallee SA and possibly elsewhere Fruits we've measure were between ~90mm up to ~180mm wide, with yellow flowers being ~25mm wide. But this is a good comparision between the large and prickly paddymelons, as well as a mallee leaf. The fuit is covered in transparent 'hairs', which don't seem to change much in size as the fruit grows. Being very 'fury' when young & small to barely visible when ripe & large. The fruits are generally spherical, but can become eliptoid with age.
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